blood sweat tear

[imeanforever]

He's moving her to a different court to see if it'll improve her attitude. She's allowed to fly. It's been a long, long time since she was allowed to -

She is only allowed to fly to her destination, not anywhere else. She notices that she is not where she should be, that she cannot progress to where she was told to go, and she careens out of control when her wings won't flap anymore, and she crashes.

---

with Miles (kappa)

with Minus (kappa)

Comments

[imeanforever]

"Thanks."

[thisvorlunatic]

"I am once again struck by how much I dislike the existence of this entire system."

[imeanforever]

"I don't think there's any getting rid of it."

[thisvorlunatic]

"Unfortunately."

[imeanforever]

"And getting rid of it entirely would mean I'd have to come up with completely different vague ambitions."

[thisvorlunatic]

"Vague ambitions?"

[imeanforever]

"There's... are you obligated to relay everything I say to your boss and emperor and so on?"

[thisvorlunatic]

"Only if it's immediately relevant to topics such as people being casually able to conquer this planet."

[imeanforever]

"Not the planet. Fairyland. It has a Queen."

[thisvorlunatic]

"...I see."

[imeanforever]

"Vassalizing her would let somebody who really wanted to fix most of the things about the place. But it's incompatible with vassalization no longer existing at all."

[thisvorlunatic]

"If you want any help with that I can maybe bring myself to accept such a fundamentally inadequate solution."

[imeanforever]

"I might. But - not soon."

[thisvorlunatic]

"Yeah."

[imeanforever]

Hand out. Berry fall. Nom.

"If you ever really want to know what fairy food tastes like the haws are safe for you but the other things might leave you open to other claims unless I hand-fed them to you," she mentions. "Not that I expect you're burning with curiosity about it."

[thisvorlunatic]

"I'm a curious person in general but I think I can pass on this particular information."

[imeanforever]

Nod.

[thisvorlunatic]

"Anyway. I'm glad you've got your tree going now. It's a nice tree."

[imeanforever]

"Thank you!"

[thisvorlunatic]

[imeanforever]

Promise grows her tree some more. She can't fit completely inside it yet, but she can make a hollow in it big enough to sit in. She does that, humming to herself.

[thisvorlunatic]

Silver goes inside to call his mother.

When he comes back out again he reports, "My mother picked the nickname Copper. She says she'll come by soon, maybe in the next few hours. And she'll deal with all the arrangements for making sure the locals don't wander by and cause a fuss."

[imeanforever]

"That's good."

[thisvorlunatic]

"Yeah."

[imeanforever]

"I hope I'm not too much of a disruption for all these people."